Between the Olympics and a tumultuous U.S. general election, wanting to win really badly is dominating the airwaves at the moment. How does winning work out in the long run though? We get occasional bursts of publicity

Psychology has a meta-analysis problem. And that’s contributing to its reproducibility problem. Meta-analyses are wallpapering over many research weaknesses, instead of being used to systematically pinpoint them. It’s a bit of a case of a prophet

The hunt for p-values less than 0.05 has left many of science’s roadways riddled with potholes. More than 50% of them in the biomedical literature are wrong, according to one reckoning, maybe 30% or more wherever

P is for pandemonium. And a bit of that broke out recently when a psychology journal banned p–values and more, declaring the whole process of significance testing “invalid”. There’s a good roundup of views about this development from

“Risky” is definitely not a one-size-fits-all concept. It’s not just that we aren’t all at the same level of every risk. Our tolerance of risk-taking in different situations can be wildly different, too. Our